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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Sep 15

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John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · Sep 14

A 'quasi-star' could form when a gas cloud over 1,000 times the Sun's mass collapses and forms a black hole. Its outer layers would be big enough to absorb the resulting supernova without being blown apart!

Result: a huge star powered by a black hole.

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A huge yellow disc (quasi-star) and some smaller orange and blue ones for comparison (huge stars such as R1361, Rigel and the Pistol Start, which are blue, and Betelgeuse, VY Canis Majoris and Stephenson 2-18, which are orange, shown in increasing size going from left to right at the bottom of the picture.)

From here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Quasi-star_size_comparison.png

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Andy Merrill “Brak” 🐸 ❌👑 @amerrill2.bsky.social · Sep 15

Yup. I’m the pier…pie-er…whatever. I pied Puddles.

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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · Sep 13

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.”

It existed yesterday and is gone today.

What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...

web.archive.org

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Aug 19

the higher resolution is a welcome improvement.

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here is last night's Eagle nebula shot. Presented preliminarily in anticipation of adding a few more hours of integrated time. Also a test of Bsky's higher res images.

I will tag it to the feeds when I have more data.
1370mm focal length C8 no filter

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Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · Jul 25

Free to read: Spain offers €400m to host troubled Thirty Metre Telescope

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

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Wes Chadwick @byomission.bsky.social · Jul 26

🤞🏼🤞🏼 !someone has to save this project!

Craig Nicholson @clanicholson.bsky.social · Jul 25

Free to read: Spain offers €400m to host troubled Thirty Metre Telescope

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 23

Fantastic!!

Gabriel Ugueto @serpenillus.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here it is! Please welcome the AMAZING Mirasaura grauvogeli, a NEW MARVELOUS Drepanosaur published in NATURE today!
This astonishing reptile lived during the Middle Triassic in Europe and it possessed an amazing crest made of plume-like structures!

I was commissioned to bring it to life
#paleoart

Illustration showing a pair of Mirasaura perched on fern fronds. The green animals show their tall orange, brown and white crests while a small beetle flies over one of them

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 20

Great episode! Thx

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 20

Going LIVE soon! SUPER EXCITED as we are trying something new here

OLDE ARCHAEOLOGY with Flint Dibble Episode #1

Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 19

OLDE NEWS with Flint Dibble Ep #1 is live Sundays at 7pm UK/2pm EDT

Beyond the ANTIKYTHERA Device, GIANT Shoes, Ice Age MAGNETIC Shifts, BOAR feasts

Check it out here: youtube.com/live/E-23TjC...

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · Jul 20

In fact, DOJ LITERALLY ALTERED Peter Strzok notes in an attempt to make this same kind of story (until I caught them in the act).

www.emptywheel.net/2021/09/14/d...

Notes from Peter Strzok memorializing a January 5, 2017 meeting Jim Comey attended. Someone added the date 1/4-5/17 to the notes on non-visible sticky note. I've put a red rectangle around it.

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Dr Elizabeth Murray @drelizabethmurray.bsky.social · Jul 12

He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 10

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radicchio
Did you guys know that radicchio, the little cabbages, aren't a type of cabbages, but actually of chicory?
Go figure!

Radicchio - Wikipedia

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · Jul 9

Completely and utterly untrue. Stats are pretty clear on this one.

Death rate of unvaccinated adults was 12.7 times higher than people with primary vaccination series.

Death rate of unvaxxed was 53.2X higher than among those who were vaxxed & boosted.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 9

Fantastic

Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 9

SPECIAL LIVESTREAM from the Old Stone Age Laboratory

This Friday** at 5pm UK/noon EDT, I will share stones, bones, and stories from my Dad's lab in France

**Small chance it will be Saturday

Photo of me with an excited face holding some large stone tools

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Daniel | ScienceSocks et al. @sciencesocks.bsky.social · Jul 9

In the studio today 👀

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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · Jul 9

It’s hard to deal with literally any issue without first reconciling with the fact that this country’s informational ecosystem is completely fucked.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 9

checking in on Fox News' coverage of the Texas floods

BREAKING DOWN CLOUD SEEDING CONCERNS AMID TX FLOOD

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 8

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Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 6

live now!

Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 6

Join me live later today (7pm UK/2pm EDT) for the third episode of Big Archaeology

We'll celebrate 69k subs and introduce my new regular streaming show that will start up later this month: OLDE NEWS WITH FLINT DIBBLE

LINK: youtube.com/live/r3M2SUs...

Big Archaeology Ep3: Celebrating 69k 😝 & Introducing OLDE NEWS with Flint Dibble

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

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Dixie ☕︎ @dixie13.bsky.social · Jul 5

#booksky

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 6

What's Olde is News!
The past is never dead, it is not even past.

Flint Dibble @flintdibble.bsky.social · Jul 6

Join me live later today (7pm UK/2pm EDT) for the third episode of Big Archaeology

We'll celebrate 69k subs and introduce my new regular streaming show that will start up later this month: OLDE NEWS WITH FLINT DIBBLE

LINK: youtube.com/live/r3M2SUs...

Big Archaeology Ep3: Celebrating 69k 😝 & Introducing OLDE NEWS with Flint Dibble

YouTube video by Archaeology with Flint Dibble

youtube.com

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 5

A detail from our Pelican Nebula post, earlier today.
less than 25% of the larger image.
Here the finer structure of the nebula is apparent.
👀

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 5

🔭
#astrophotography

Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 5

A detail from our Pelican Nebula post, earlier today.
less than 25% of the larger image.
Here the finer structure of the nebula is apparent.
👀

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 5

A detail from our Pelican Nebula post, earlier today.
less than 25% of the larger image.
Here the finer structure of the nebula is apparent.
👀

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Mocking Moon Observatory @wickedlywhen.bsky.social · Jul 5

View is towards the galactic plane, around 90 degrees from galactic center.